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Letters Patent No. 61,138, dated January 15, 1867.

IMPRVBMENT 1N CATTLE-TIE! FOR STALLS.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, CYRUS N. BAKER, of Bingham, Somerset county, and State of Maine, have invented anew and improved TieChain for Cattle and other Animals; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specication. i

The present invention relates to a new and improved tie-chain for hitch'ing or fastening oxen or other cattle and animals in their stalls, the object being to produce a tie-chain of such a nature that the cattle or other animals, when hitched or fastened by it tol and in their stalls, cannot shift or move their heads to the other side ofthe posts or stanchions to which they are fastened or hitched, thus obviating all danger of the chain becoming twisted, which oftentimes causes the choking of the cattle, and also preventing the cattle from robbing each other.

In theaccompanying plate ot' drawings my improved tie or bitching-chain is illustrated- Figure 1 being a view of an ox, showing it applied, and the ox secured to a stanchion or post of the stall by it; and

Figure 2, a detached'view of the tie-chain.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A, in the drawings, represents my improved tie or bitching-chain for oxen or other cattle or animals, which tie-chain consists of a slightly-bent bar or rod, B, of iron, or other suitable metal or other material, of a length suiiicient to extend the entire width of one side of the neck of the x or other animal, in the eye C of each end of which bar are hung chains D and E, one to cach eye, C, of asuihcient length that when their` other ends are secured together' by means of a snap-hook, F, or other suitable fastening device, they will extend around the remaining portion of thc neck of the oX not embraced by the bent bar B2 Gr Gr, rings hung to the eyes H of the'bent bar B, one at each end; which rings, as plainly shown -in hg. 1, are placed over the post or stanchion of the stall to which the ox or other animal is to be hitched or fastened. l i

By means of thev above-described tie or hitching-chain for oxen and other animals, it is plain to be seen that the oxen, when hitched or fastened to a post or stanchion of the stall by it, cannot, by any possibility, succeed in shifting or moving their heads to the other side of such post, thus obviating all liability of the chain becoming twisted and consequently choking the ox or other animal; and that, furthermore, one animal cannot rob or pilfer the food or fodder of anotherin the stall next adjoining, the importance of which is obvious.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The tie-chain herein described, the same consisting of the bar B, chains D and E, and rings Grv G'r, when all` connected together, so as to be used for the fastening or bitching of cattle and other animals substantially as described.

l CYRUS M. BAKER.

Witnesses AMoN BAKER, EUGENE F. Goonnron. 

